Yuja Wang. 2/2.

[@JoeLinux2000]

I'm glad she puts a lot of energy into her costuming. It's important. She's established her brand. There are many great classical pianists, but there is only one Yuja.

[@ralphaverill2001]

Yuga Wang is an example of the profound potential within a single human being. In one form or another, there is a Yuga Wang living in us all. Her gift is to inspire what is great and good in each one of us. I think that is why we all love her so much. Thank you, Yuga Wang.

[@moonrise458]

Extraordinary to be such a great pianist and still be so refreshing, no conceit at all! What a wonder Yuja Wang!

[@drspaseebo410]

Overwhelming talent, impeccable musicality, supreme sense of interpretation ~ and a remarkably beautiful young woman. Impossible to match.

[@Desireyso58]

Young, Talented, Charming, Beautiful... I Love YUJA WANG!!!

[@ivomondini4018]

Após ver e ouvir Yuja Wang, creio que muitos concertistas precisarão voltar aos conservatórios musicais para reverem seus conceitos. Yuja é técnica, é domínio, é presença e acima de tudo alma e coração que vibra com o que faz melhor do que ninguém hoje neste planeta: TOCAR PIANO ! Obrigado

[@andremaia1961]

She plays not only with her fingers, but with her heart and soul.

[@mckavitt13]

And her while body, but strangely not in as flagrant a manner as one might expect, given her wardrobe.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Not much heart and not much soul, but what fingers! 😋

[@gymnassfan]

...and with her legs.

[@fernando197477]

wonderful pianist and beautiful woman

[@mariodisarli1022]

Yuja Wang - "Kim Kardashian of classical music"?

[@Sweence]

So much talent! And those legs!

[@dgcmusi]

I love everything about her..

[@pnoenstchiispianoschoolofmusic]

Great showcasing of Yuja Wang and a glimpse of who she is.

[@carlosrosenrojas5005]

qué se puede comentar...no hay palabras para traducir un sentimiento como el que me ha producido este concierto...gracias Yuja

[@charleslyall5857]

She's an admirable pianist and artist but wears it lightly.

[@kaptnkirk2740]

was für ein geiles Stück!

[@germanbigdaddy]

Greatest personality to play the piano since Horovitz

[@JoeLinux2000]

I'll take Yuja.

[@salmonella9105]

I don't care what Yuja wears whether it be silk or burlap.....maybe see thru black netting? Lol. She remains a very special musical treasure and I wish her the best!

[@sirchoppy1810]

💀

[@lendoultap4677]

pianiste fantastique et super jolie i love you

[@17attewell]

She is just a lovely person and if my daughter leaving aside her playing I would be proud of her as a person.

[@Optunity]

Other pianist I fall asleep. Yuja, it's like 4 shots of espresso.

[@edilbertosantana8307]

Thank you ..Mr.Siv ..the video.Chopin & Yuja Wang ..Thank you.

[@robertoe.5582]

Superb!

[@queenscake4500]

How can you not love this lady

[@krustykrustin]

I love her sense of humor hahha

[@amaurylopez9088]

All beautiful ! 👍👏🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🌟

[@MusicforMe123]

In the zone with ease... amazing!

[@bartoszbartoszewski4656]

incredible

[@pauliberg3492]

there is ONE PIANIST THAT TURNS THE WORLD AROUND...THAT IS YUJA WANG..ONLY YUJA WANG.

[@Desireyso58]

And I Love Her!

[@goscott444]

You can't have her.....she's _mine!_ LOL

[@multilingual1]

Someone tell me, please. Does she have a lover ? -- Male or female ? Because I love her and listen to her play and speak every day !!! 她弹钢琴弹的太棒 !!! I believe she MAY play "Flight of the Bumblebee" in octaves faster than I play it in fingers and the public is in awe when EYE play it !!! I am so glad her mother stretched her hands and that she is double jointed. I love the way she laughs at what she says. 王羽佳万岁 !!!

[@Luutzen007]

Yuja, the most sexy pianiste on this planet and lightening fast. :D

[@russellgibson5013]

Wow 120 performances a year. I hope she makes tons and tons of money I was wondering if she compose music also. By her schedule I would think not enough time to do that.

[@metroidfoosion73]

Going off her interpretations I doubt she has the creativity to compose

[@pietdegeling4696]

@@metroidfoosion73 she has more creativity in one hair on her head than you in your whole body

[@siamcharm7904]

120 is hilarious 20

[@violinhunter2]

You can say all you want about her fashion preferences not being part of the marketing but you will never convince me. Wang's playing is spectacular but part of her "charisma" and appeal comes from her short dresses. I DO NOT mind that at all. I think the shorter they are the better she sounds... :-) She also has a very distinct way of bowing, no?

[@mckavitt13]

Her bow is humility, imo.

[@majeriisli]

the bowing is odd. the dresses are odd. all odd.

[@garryabate2526]

Andrea Bianchi Yes, and both are beautiful.

[@Knight14649]

Kind of like Samantha Fish and her playing slide guitar. But her short dresses........... whew! "she's got legs and she know's how to use them"--ZZ TOP

[@davidcottrell1308]

She is who SHE IS.

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

Really hope the spirit of Maestro Bernstein can hear this superb virtuosa in his home of music.....

[@bloodgrss]

"White is too virginal for me!" What a refreshing spirit she has in this sometimes reactionary classical world...

[@garethwest9069]

Yes, it's so "refreshing" that society has devolved to the point (thanks to vile pseudo-scientists like Alfred Kinsey and John Money) where most cannot define what a woman is anymore. Enjoy the godless utopia.

[@jacjuet1464]

Her style seems to represent a little bit of personality which in turn reflects her Showmanship and how she plays, I'm new to classical music I don't really get involved in all the intricate details I just love the sound of the music and how she plays she's a little cutie. So much to learn about classical music I think I love it.

[@JoeLinux2000]

It's great she pulls people into her world.

[@Bashkii]

One day she's gonna hurt her back with those bows!! 😁

[@mckavitt13]

She wasn't silly or childish as an eight-year old. But nor did she "sacrifice most of her childhood". She wanted to succeed even young. It shows in the videos we have of her at that age. She looks so intelligent... maybe ordinary children's games bored her after 6 years of age or so.

[@marcosriano56]

A gift from the cosmos

[@justnznz]

WANGerful

[@billybergendahl3515]

I once met a concert harpist who performed at Carnegie Hall. She was from France.

[@otissumnerbrown]

There is only one thing worse that being "talked about" - and that is NOT being talked about!

[@newton18311]

she is the sexiest woman on the Planet.

[@PS-kd1if]

You’ve got to be kidding.

[@newton18311]

@@PS-kd1if No, great attitude body and got skill, what more could a guy/Lady want. she is gorgeous

[@govcalif]

she is a great american!!!!!

[@sliversilver]

or not?

[@brothersamati]

Wouldn't it be more generous if you saw her as someone who comes from a country where western classical music was actually banned within living memory, and who was brought up and studied music there? Can you not bear the idea that China too, despite handicaps, can nurture genius? Does it all have to be about America?

[@mckavitt13]

+John Harding Right/Write on!

[@willdon.1279]

She belongs to the world, above any Nationalism...

[@99Grigor]

Shes not American. Lol I don't like her stage presence.

[@paulwarren796]

IMPETUOUS , THAT CRINKLED NOSE EXPRESSION WITH THAT IMPLOSIVE LAUGH OF TOTAL SUCCESS OF THE AGESS--SO WILDLY SEXUAL..SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! 2 CHILDREN WILL KEEP MANY OF YOU BEAUTIES CHILDISH....... GOD! SUCH A DREAM!!!!

[@Shiba.Inu.Elon2024]

Honestly, I just looked for the legs.

[@johnsmith-mo1yc]

Anyone reading present at this concert? Comments please!

[@michaelpearson6746]

Your Grand Piano is Africa and Africa is 7th Heaven. 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🌎🚶🌍🚶🌏🚶

[@pierrechazal7428]

Superbe fille

[@williamgabriel2286]

electric

[@rigelion224]

Welches Stück spielt sie bitte bei 8:45?

[@cahittaskin5694]

Starts like Chopin continues like Mendelssohn:)

[@PikaLuvzYa]

chopin's nocturne op.48 no.1

[@davidcottrell1308]

WOW!!!

[@camitful]

The people need to dream ; what better of the music of Chopin?

[@beastinthesky6774]

These comments amaze me. I had no idea the classical music community was so bigoted and misogynist. Makes sense - a bunch of old white dudes, extremely bothered by a woman in a revealing dress. Would you be happy if she wearing a burka? Doubt it. Yuja Wang is a fantastic pianist and no amount of being-butt-hurt-by-her-attire will change that.

[@majeriisli]

fuck that. who wears a dress for a disco to play piano?

[@jacjuet1464]

Beastin Thesky yes I too am amazed at some of these comments the young ladies out there playing her heart out how she dresses what she wears is Testament to her style why people have to be so hateful its unbelievable.

[@beastinthesky6774]

@Pat McCann there's a difference between noticing and making a stink out of it. Of course I notice, but I also respect the hell out of Wang and I respect her right to wear whatever she feels best in. I appreciate her for her music - the way she dresses is completely irrelevant and it's pretty pathetic that so many people get so hung up on it.

[@rebelsprophet7185]

She's short tho appears tall on stage.

[@jaimeduncan6167]

No she looks giant on stage :)

[@tedl7538]

Five inch heels will do that.

[@mckavitt13]

Jaime Duncan She IS a giant onstage. See?

[@dooksan]

Great music at 2:42! Reactor by Jason Creasey on KZbin.

[@slateflash]

5:20 Prokofiev's 3rd sonata!!

[@가을시선-h9y]

I changed my boxers...

[@mckavitt13]

Hope you also washed your hands ;-)

[@ethanrobertson6647]

Pair of horny freaks, yous should be embarrassed

[@PS-kd1if]

It’s called cause and effect.

[@sadelsor]

Cab ride ?? cannot the agent provide a limo for this special Lady ??

[@primopalasi2319]

Yes not self indulging and frugal.

[@Robert...Schrey]

Thank god, I am not 14 any more.

[@georgescancan7503]

Wow! Is that a "Kamasutra" - pianist ???

[@bloodgrss]

Wow! our bipolar musical bigot....

[@georgescancan7503]

Hi Yuja Wang (bloodgrss)! I will always fight against prostitution in the classical music !!! + Mario DiSarli + Gidon Kremer + "Chamber Music New Zealand" + ... "Sex sells ...classical music?" Sex sells. Marketing professionals know that, which is why advertisements for everything from cars to beer regularly feature scantily clad women. We live in an age where appearance is more important than ever before; scientific studies suggest that more attractive people get better jobs and are happier. Until recently, classical music was one of the few industries where sex is not usually used to sell the product. Performers often dress within a prescribed fashion, with men wearing dinner suits or tuxedos and women wearing full-length dresses. However, a number of prominent musicians have recently been courting controversy for their appearance. Young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has received as much coverage about her appearance as her performances recently, with the Los Angeles Times commenting, “Her dress [on] Tuesday was so short and tight that had there been any less of it, the Bowl might have been forced to restrict admission to any music lover under 18 not accompanied by an adult. Had her heels been any higher, walking, to say nothing of her sensitive pedaling, would have been unfeasible.” It’s not just women pushing the envelope, though. American organist Cameron Carpenter, a soloist with this year’s NZSO National Youth Orchestra, has received a great deal of media attention for wearing white stovepipe trousers and bejewelled tops during performances. In an interview with Radio New Zealand’s Kathryn Ryan, Carpenter admitted that he regularly works out at the gym, and opined that a musician’s appearance is “extremely important”. Korean-American violinist Hahn-Bin describes himself as “Viagra to classical music”, and dresses flamboyantly, complete with heavy eyeliner and Mohawk hairstyle.

[@bloodgrss]

Do your really expect anyone to read through your whole angry sexist rant? Lol...your even more a fool than I thought-and the bar was low. Thank heaven its' the music Yuja plays that is important to emotionally balanced people unlike yourself: "New Your Times: "Ms. Wang’s virtuosity goes well beyond uncanny facility. Right through this Beethoven performance she wondrously brought out intricate details, inner voices and harmonic colorings. The first movement had élan and daring. The scherzo skipped along with mischievousness and rhythmic bite. In the grave, great slow movement, she played with restraint and poignancy. She kept you on edge during the elusive transition to the gnarly, dense fugue, which she then dispatched with unfathomable dexterity." Poor Georges/Mario-you still need to learn to read more intelligent reviewers-as if your bigot sexist mind could understand them. Hard for a troll to do, eh?"

[@bloodgrss]

Next time Georges/Mario-copy and paste your shorter sexist trolls...don't waste internet space more than you have to on such flatulent bigotry...

[@georgescancan7503]

Yuja Wang - "Kim Kardashian of classical music"?

[@ivannvillanueva6294]

Some jobs are more difficult than others; but my gosh, it must be so difficult for Yuja’s manager, to assists her to select the sexy mi minidresses for the nite performance. What a Lucky guy!., idoes he earns a salary to do that?

[@L.M1792]

Why is she explaining it to a man in his early 50s, and why is he then explaining it to us? Is it because it’s Jewish theatre management structures? They give a strong impression of having given no time for preparing the correct formula? Kinda creepy * * * These people do seem lonely, but their expertise I suppose is their art and they do art expertly. Sorry, but the sound on this short extract is terrible. Is this really the great Carnegie Hall? Perhaps it is simply not a piano hall.

[@mckavitt13]

I love hearing & seeing her, but her American accent is no great feat or pleasure. :-/

[@mckavitt13]

She says NY is glorious here but in another interview she says: "I live here... and I hate it."

[@mckavitt13]

I dislike the video voice telling us what to think. Typical USA UGH.

[@PS-kd1if]

Yes, very shallow. Typical.

[@tjmoore1084]

omg what a shame. this sound recording in carnegie is terrible. please delete this and replace with proper one.

[@mariodisarli1022]

New York CLASSICAL REVIEW < Yuja shows familiar flash but a lack of depth in Carnegie recital> By Eric C. Simpson May 15.2016 Bravo, Eric! Yuja is a well-oiled (Sexsells + Kitsch) Chinese sewing machine ??? The YW belongs to that breed of performers who win a prominent place in the concert programs (and in the list of cachet) without ever having won a first prize at the most prestigious competitions. Yuja Wang===> PR product!!! "McDonald`s" - culture!!!

[@bloodgrss]

New Your Times: "Ms. Wang’s virtuosity goes well beyond uncanny facility. Right through this Beethoven performance she wondrously brought out intricate details, inner voices and harmonic colorings. The first movement had élan and daring. The scherzo skipped along with mischievousness and rhythmic bite. In the grave, great slow movement, she played with restraint and poignancy. She kept you on edge during the elusive transition to the gnarly, dense fugue, which she then dispatched with unfathomable dexterity." Poor Georges/Mario-you still need to learn to read more intelligent reviewers-as if your bigot sexist mind could understand them. Hard for a troll to do, eh?

[@mariodisarli1022]

Is that an art??? No! This is pure commercialism! Fresh, young flesh for sale !!! ALEXANDER BOOT Author, critic, polemicist Blogs > Alexander's blog > Submitted by Alexander on 24 June 2013 - 12:59pm The other day I listened to something or other on KZbin, and a link to Chopin’s Fourth Ballade performed by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili came up. The link was accompanied by a close-up publicity photo of the musician: sloe bedroom eyes, sensual semi-open lips suggesting a delight that’s still illegal in Alabama, naked shoulders hinting at the similarly nude rest of her body regrettably out of shot… Let me see where my wife is… Good, she isn’t looking over my shoulder, so I can admit to you that the picture got me excited in ways one doesn’t normally associate with Chopin’s Fourth Ballade or for that matter any other classical composition this side of Wagner or perhaps Ravel’s Bolero. Searching for a more traditional musical rapture I clicked on the actual clip and alas found it anticlimactic, as it were. Khatia’s playing, though competent, is as undeniably so-what as her voluptuous figure undeniably isn’t. (Yes, I know the photograph I mentioned doesn’t show much of her figure apart from the luscious shoulders but, the prurient side of my nature piqued, I did a bit of a web crawl.) Just for the hell of it I looked at the publicity shots of other currently active female musicians, such as Yuja Wang, Joanna MacGregor, Nicola Bendetti, Alison Balsom (nicknamed ‘crumpet with a trumpet’, her promos more often suggest ‘a strumpet with a trumpet’ instead), Anne-Sophie Mutter and a few others. They didn’t disappoint the Peeping Tom lurking under my aging surface. Just about all the photographs showed the ladies in various stages of undress, in bed, lying in suggestive poses on top of the piano, playing in frocks (if any) open to the coccyx in the back and/or to the navel up front. This is one thing these musicians have in common. The other is that none of them is all that good at her day job and some, such as Wang, are truly awful. Yet this doesn’t really matter either to them or to the public or, most important, to those who form the public tastes by writing about music and musicians. Thus, for example, a tabloid pundit expressing his heartfelt regret that Nicola Benedetti “won’t be posing for the lads’ mags anytime soon. Pity, because she looks fit as a fiddle…” Geddit? She’s a violinist, which is to say fiddler - well, you do get it. “But Nicola doesn’t always take the bonniest photo,” continues the writer, “she’s beaky in pics sometimes, which is weird because in the flesh she’s an absolute knock-out. “The classical musician is wearing skinny jeans which show off her long legs. She’s also busty with a washboard flat tummy, tottering around 5ft 10in in her Dune platform wedges.” How well does she play the violin though? No one cares. Not even critics writing for our broadsheets, who don’t mind talking about musicians in terms normally reserved for pole dancers. Thus for instance runs a review of a piano recital at Queen Elizabeth Hall, one of London’s top concert venues: “She is the most photogenic of players: young, pretty, bare-footed; and, with her long dark hair and exquisite strapless dress of dazzling white, not only seemed to imply that sexuality itself can make you a profound musician, but was a perfect visual complement to the sleek monochrome of a concert grand... [but] there’s more to her than meets the eye.” The male reader is clearly expected to get a stiffie trying to imagine what that might be. To help his imagination along, the piece is accompanied by a photo of the young lady in question reclining on her instrument in a pre-coital position with an unmistakable ‘come and get it’ expression on her face. The ‘monochrome’ piano is actually bright-red, a colour usually found not in concert halls but in dens of iniquity. Nowhere does the review mention the fact obvious to anyone with any taste for musical performance: the girl is so bad that she should indeed be playing in a brothel, rather than on the concert platform. Can you, in the wildest flight of fancy, imagine a reviewer talking in such terms about sublime women artists of the past, such as Myra Hess, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Clara Haskil, Marcelle Meyer, Marguerite Long, Kathleen Ferrier? Can you see any of them allowing themselves to be photographed in the style of “lads’ mags”? I can’t, which raises the inevitable question: what exactly has changed in the last say 70 years? The short answer is, just about everything. Concert organisers and impresarios, who used to be in the business because they loved music first and wanted to make a living second, now care about nothing but money. Critics, who used to have discernment and taste, now have nothing but greed and lust for popularity. The public… well, don’t get me started on that. The circle is vicious: because tasteless ignoramuses use every available medium to build up musical nonentities, nonentities is all we get. And because the musical nonentities have no artistic qualities to write about, the writing nonentities have to concentrate on the more jutting attractions, using a vocabulary typically found in “lads’ mags”. The adage “sex sells” used to be applied first to B-movies, then to B-novels, and now to real music. From “sex sells” it’s but a short distance to “only sex sells”. This distance has already been travelled - and we are all being sold short.

[@bloodgrss]

Dear me Mario/Georges-I ask again; who do you imagine will read your incredibly silly and endless troll here? I certainly don't-tho' at the beginning, what Khatia has to do with Yuja escapes me... Oh, right-its that reactionary sexist irrelevancy again.

[@mariodisarli1022]

Hi Yuja Wang (bloodgrss)! I will always fight against prostitution in the classical music !!! + Georges CanCan + Gidon Kremer + "Chamber Music New Zealand" + Guardian + ...!!! "Sex sells ...classical music?" Sex sells. Marketing professionals know that, which is why advertisements for everything from cars to beer regularly feature scantily clad women. We live in an age where appearance is more important than ever before; scientific studies suggest that more attractive people get better jobs and are happier. Until recently, classical music was one of the few industries where sex is not usually used to sell the product. Performers often dress within a prescribed fashion, with men wearing dinner suits or tuxedos and women wearing full-length dresses. However, a number of prominent musicians have recently been courting controversy for their appearance. Young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has received as much coverage about her appearance as her performances recently, with the Los Angeles Times commenting, “Her dress [on] Tuesday was so short and tight that had there been any less of it, the Bowl might have been forced to restrict admission to any music lover under 18 not accompanied by an adult. Had her heels been any higher, walking, to say nothing of her sensitive pedaling, would have been unfeasible.” It’s not just women pushing the envelope, though. American organist Cameron Carpenter, a soloist with this year’s NZSO National Youth Orchestra, has received a great deal of media attention for wearing white stovepipe trousers and bejewelled tops during performances. In an interview with Radio New Zealand’s Kathryn Ryan, Carpenter admitted that he regularly works out at the gym, and opined that a musician’s appearance is “extremely important”. Korean-American violinist Hahn-Bin describes himself as “Viagra to classical music”, and dresses flamboyantly, complete with heavy eyeliner and Mohawk hairstyle.

[@georgescancan7503]

Lol... “Mozart ends with a rondo-and it should be fast, exuberant, and fun. It was. Wang ripped the notes out of the keyboard, as much as played them. At one point, I almost laughed out loud. That’s how funny she was, and how funny Mozart is."! Ah, typical Yuja Wang !!! Tra - ta- ta -ta - ta ...!!! Yuja is well oiled (sex sells + kitsch) chienese sewing machine! PR product! Made by US-PR&sex compani !!! YW - Kim Kardashian of classical musik !!!

[@cjlee7733]

transvestite

[@MDMbandBrussels]

it is boring ...I miss Horowitz so much right now

[@yihtsac6607]

Martin de Marneffe - probably because you are boring too.

[@mckavitt13]

Martin de Marneffe Your opinion to which you have every right. But you announce it as if it were fact. Not v considerate of other spectators. Or Miss Wang.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Well, we're at least two to find this boring and to miss Horowitz...

[@peterroberts5565]

She looks cheap. Sounds nice. I think Chinese in general have a problem with appropriate western dress.

[@PS-kd1if]

Unfortunately that’s true, and vice versa - Westerners look pretty ridiculous in Chinese clothes, too. Not to defend her, for she did seem to have a taste issue, or lack thereof.

[@eagyinjection]

love her smile